Manilow Start New Project Music School
Palm Springs resident Barry Manilow will expand the Manilow Music Project he started with Coachella Valley schools into the Los Angeles Unified School District, it was announced this week.
He’ll perform a benefit for the fund Oct. 24 at the Hollywood Bowl with a VIP reception starting at 5 p.m. and a concert beginning at 7:30 p.m.
According to Manilowfund.org, Manilow planned the benefit “in response to California’s budget crisis and the drastic cuts in music programs in public schools. ...This gala event will put instruments into the hands of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.”
He said at the announcement of the distribution at Palm Springs High School he wanted to do more music projects in other regions and he hoped to inspire more donations of musical instruments around the country.
News of the project soon in spired a donation of instruments in Pennsylvania. Manilow followed up his donation in May by inviting Palm Springs High School music students to watch his Las Vegas show, “Ultimate Manilow: The Hits” show at the Las Vegas Hilton.
A spokesman for Manilow declined a request for an interview with the entertainer, but said, “We'll have a bigger story to tell very soon.”
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